Is there such a thing as a web-safe font?
January 21, 2025
Says Wikipedia: “Web-safe fonts are computer fonts that may reasonably be expected to be present on a wide range of computer systems, and used by Web content authors to increase the likelihood that content displays in their chosen font.”
Yes, reasonably expected. But that doesn’t mean really expected. For example this article points out that even Arial and Times New Roman are not present on some Android distributions.And, as I found out today (Thanks Barry!) working on this here web site, Courier New is not available on iOS. Let’s repeat this again.
Next we’ll be hearing there’s no such thing as a web safe color palette!